CSR News

CLEVELAND, - The City Club of Cleveland and sponsor, KeyBank, kickoff the 2006 KeyBank Diversity Thought Leadership Series on Friday, March 24. Featured speaker Tex G. Hall, former chairman, National Congress of American Indians, leads off this second annual series en...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 2006--The Hilton Family of Hotels announced today that it has made it even easier for members of its highly popular guest reward program, Hilton HHonors(R), to convert their HHonors points and contribute to a variety of...

PORTLAND - IW Financial, a leading provider of research- based technology solutions that enable investment professionals to analyze portfolio holdings based on governance and social criteria, has named Mark Bateman as director of research, it was announced today.

SANTA FE, N.M.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 2006--The law presumes that a company's management and affiliates, i.e., the "insiders," always know more about the company than the man-on-the-street. This is not always the case in a global economy. A publicly traded company...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Many of the top names in Jewish music will be performing at the inaugural New Orleans International Jewish Music Festival this spring. The two-day gathering is a celebration of Jewish culture and rebuilding of the New Orleans Jewish community after ...

A new sense of urgency and confidence is sweeping the professional community engaged in corporate responsibility work, leading to greater attention on how the root causes of poverty and environmental change can be tackled collectively. This is the assertion of "Servin...

Washington D.C. - The Board of Directors of the International Finance Corporation adopted today new environmental and social standards for the organization. The new standards build upon the environmental and social requirements that IFC currently applies to private se...

Brattleboro, VT - SRI World Group, a leading provider of corporate sustainability reporting solutions, announced today the addition of Web publishing tools to its OneReport sustainability reporting system (www.one-report.com). C...

BOSTON - In response to shareholder requests, four U.S. electric power companies in Missouri and Wisconsin have joined other utility companies by agreeing to assess and disclose the potential impacts from foreseeable regulations to reduce carbon dioxide and other gree...

WESTERLY, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2006--The Washington Trust Company provided a $110,000 SBA loan to Buscon Associates, Providence, R.I., to purchase the assets of The Providence American newspaper, a community newspaper that provides a minority perspective fo...